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falafel_musingsSo I spent the last weekend of my holiday in the beautiful Hay-on-Wye, town of books (seriously it's a tiny country town with about 50 thriving book shops). I crammed a lot into just two days of the huge literature, philosophy and music festival they have there every year. I also had the pleasure of seeing a lot of great novelists - my hero Patrick Ness, but also Matt Haig, Nick Harkaway and Saci Lloyd. Ness couldn't answer my questions on the Charlie Kaufman adaptation of Chaos Walking for pesky legal reasons (sigh). But Ness is always awesome to listen to and I got to hear him read from his new novel 'More Than This' which is either a story set in the afterlife or a last survivor at the end of the world story. I can't tell yet. I also saw a wonderful gypsy band called Miss Maud's Folly who played a great original set laced with covers of 'Mein Herr' and 'Belleville Rendezvous'.
I'll have to go next year for longer.
I'm back at school now (for seven and a half long weeks) but I can cope with anything because I have my Breaking Bad S5 DVD. This includes the great new missing scene Chicks n Guns: seven minutes of brand new BrBa and I've been starved for ten months so it felt like a feast. Seven minutes of Jesse, Saul and Skinny Peteness! Yay!Chicks n Guns basically gives us an insight into Jesse's life during his three month vacation from cooking meth with Mr White. Which (as usual) consists of booze, boobies and loud music with his sweet stoner friends until Saul shows up to give Jesse a gun and warn him to watch out for "bears". And Jesse's all "Yo! Don't talk to me in metaphors, bitch!" And Saul's just trying to gently explain to Jesse that Walt is a kill-crazy sociopath now and Jesse's all "But Mr White wouldn't hurt Mike's guys because that would make Mike angry and Mike isn't dead, Saul, Mr White sent him away to live on a farm!!" Sigh. My poor Pinkman. I'm worried about Jesse's vaguely suicidal talk to Skinny too. I'm going to hurt this final season. Now I'm just sitting enjoying the audio commentaries (OMG, Jonathan Bank's rants are a treat). There's also a lovely tribute to Mike: The Cleaner and a longer ickier version of the Walt/Skyler bed scene where Skyler gives Walt the most desperate despairing handjob ever. I actually wish they had kept that part in. It was such a creepy parallel to the hilarious distracted-by-E-bay handjob in the Pilot. Oh, and the new DVD has the best Gag Reel so far I think. I guess it'll all be on youtube soon for those of you who aren't obsessive enough to pay £20 for eight episodes and so extras.
I also caught up with Game of Thrones S3 in the holiday. And I was going to make a post about everything that has been happening in S3. But I just watched the latest episode and now I can't remember anything that ever happened in GoT apart from...that last fucking scene. That was, well...brutal and horrific doesn't cover it. I'm only a casual Thrones fan and as such I just want simple things like Stark family reunions and a little less Theon torture. But no...everyone is going to die screaming, aren't they? I'm dreading my mum seeing this episode. Every time I watch Game of Thrones with my mum, she'll tell me that all she wants is for Arya to get back to her mum and her brother. Every time we watch a damn episode. And (for my mum's sake) I was still hoping that Cat and Robb might flee the Red Wedding in despair and at least have the comfort of finding Arya waiting in the wilderness. But no. Of course Frey doesn't care about his child bride. So Cat has to watch her first born son get stabbed in the heart. This only shortly after her husband's head was cut off and the rest of her children are lost or captured. Cat is the one I really feel horrible for because she fucking told you so Robb! Man, I'm gonna really miss Michelle Fairley on this show. I was so caught up in Cat's final moan that I wasn't prepared for Cat being slaughtered herself. Well damn. Maybe when Game of Thrones S4 comes out I'll just watch episode 9. Seems like episode 9 is now the annual episode where everything goes to hell and heads are gonna roll.
I'll try to catch up with Mad Men S6 next (unless I die of boredom that is).
And if I wasn't juggling enough shows...I've watched the first two episodes of Orphan Black. Ugh. I really need a break from TV too. Why does this show have to be so awesome? Does it stay this good? Who's watching?
I'll have to go next year for longer.
I'm back at school now (for seven and a half long weeks) but I can cope with anything because I have my Breaking Bad S5 DVD. This includes the great new missing scene Chicks n Guns: seven minutes of brand new BrBa and I've been starved for ten months so it felt like a feast. Seven minutes of Jesse, Saul and Skinny Peteness! Yay!Chicks n Guns basically gives us an insight into Jesse's life during his three month vacation from cooking meth with Mr White. Which (as usual) consists of booze, boobies and loud music with his sweet stoner friends until Saul shows up to give Jesse a gun and warn him to watch out for "bears". And Jesse's all "Yo! Don't talk to me in metaphors, bitch!" And Saul's just trying to gently explain to Jesse that Walt is a kill-crazy sociopath now and Jesse's all "But Mr White wouldn't hurt Mike's guys because that would make Mike angry and Mike isn't dead, Saul, Mr White sent him away to live on a farm!!" Sigh. My poor Pinkman. I'm worried about Jesse's vaguely suicidal talk to Skinny too. I'm going to hurt this final season. Now I'm just sitting enjoying the audio commentaries (OMG, Jonathan Bank's rants are a treat). There's also a lovely tribute to Mike: The Cleaner and a longer ickier version of the Walt/Skyler bed scene where Skyler gives Walt the most desperate despairing handjob ever. I actually wish they had kept that part in. It was such a creepy parallel to the hilarious distracted-by-E-bay handjob in the Pilot. Oh, and the new DVD has the best Gag Reel so far I think. I guess it'll all be on youtube soon for those of you who aren't obsessive enough to pay £20 for eight episodes and so extras.
I also caught up with Game of Thrones S3 in the holiday. And I was going to make a post about everything that has been happening in S3. But I just watched the latest episode and now I can't remember anything that ever happened in GoT apart from...that last fucking scene. That was, well...brutal and horrific doesn't cover it. I'm only a casual Thrones fan and as such I just want simple things like Stark family reunions and a little less Theon torture. But no...everyone is going to die screaming, aren't they? I'm dreading my mum seeing this episode. Every time I watch Game of Thrones with my mum, she'll tell me that all she wants is for Arya to get back to her mum and her brother. Every time we watch a damn episode. And (for my mum's sake) I was still hoping that Cat and Robb might flee the Red Wedding in despair and at least have the comfort of finding Arya waiting in the wilderness. But no. Of course Frey doesn't care about his child bride. So Cat has to watch her first born son get stabbed in the heart. This only shortly after her husband's head was cut off and the rest of her children are lost or captured. Cat is the one I really feel horrible for because she fucking told you so Robb! Man, I'm gonna really miss Michelle Fairley on this show. I was so caught up in Cat's final moan that I wasn't prepared for Cat being slaughtered herself. Well damn. Maybe when Game of Thrones S4 comes out I'll just watch episode 9. Seems like episode 9 is now the annual episode where everything goes to hell and heads are gonna roll.
I'll try to catch up with Mad Men S6 next (unless I die of boredom that is).
And if I wasn't juggling enough shows...I've watched the first two episodes of Orphan Black. Ugh. I really need a break from TV too. Why does this show have to be so awesome? Does it stay this good? Who's watching?
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Date: 2013-06-05 11:06 pm (UTC)No, I'm not giving up on Six Feet Under!! I love the show but you can tell it's not the type of drama I'm insanely invested in (like, I'm going to go on a message board and read about every little details!).I know the last few episodes are amazing!! I'll watch another episode tonight. :)
As for Hannibal, I think it has the potential of being in my top TV shows, along with Breaking Bad, The X-files and Fringe. The relationship between the two main characters is soooo juicy and disturbing. Will (the good guy) is someone that is described as having 'pure empathy' and can go to a crime scene and figure out what happened because he can put himself in the shoes of the murderers. But, as you can imagine, being so emphatic to this kind of horror really takes its toll. In the opposite corner is Hannibal who is totally deprived of empathy and likes to play mind games with everybody, especially mentally fragile Will.
As for being graphic with cannibalism... well not really because the... er... human meat is cooked and looks like regular meat so it's very disturbing because you KNOW these people are eating human meat but it looks gorgeous! So it's the implication that's gross. The murders scenes are very graphic and some images are really disturbing. I had just made myself a sandwich and was about to eat it when I saw this: http://heydontjudgeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/25.jpg
I didn't enjoy the sandwich much. This show might actually be good for your waistline and turn a lot of people into vegetarians.
As for being a Network show... apparently NBC is thriving to be more like cable and that's why they have these types of shows on the schedule. A season will not be more than 13 episodes. And the NBC renewed it even though the ratings were terrible, probably thinking it will grow an audience (which I think will now that it's been renewed). I think a lot of people (like myself) didn't want to watch because Networks have this habit of cancelling most shows after the first seasons.
ETA: I fogot... you see a pair of lungs being cooked. That was a tad disturbing too.
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Date: 2013-06-06 09:01 pm (UTC)Will (the good guy) is someone that is described as having 'pure empathy' and can go to a crime scene and figure out what happened because he can put himself in the shoes of the murderers. But, as you can imagine, being so emphatic to this kind of horror really takes its toll.
Woah, really? That does sound interesting. I found the Will Graham character in the Red Dragon book/film rather boring but it sounds like they are doing the character a little differently in the TV show. And you know I'm a sucker for twisted psychologically damaging relationships, right? Right. I will try it at some point, especially since there's only one season with 13 episodes to catch up with. Just give me time!
not really because the... er... human meat is cooked and looks like regular meat so it's very disturbing because you KNOW these people are eating human meat but it looks gorgeous!
Well, regular meat grosses me out too. Just eating dead flesh, human or animal. Totally squicks me. But LOL at you recommending Hannibal as an aid to weight loss :D It sure would be. I wish you hadn't even told me about the lungs (barfs!)
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Date: 2013-06-06 10:43 pm (UTC)As for the character of Will Graham, as much as I like Edward Norton, I agree his Will Graham was kind of boring and generic. The one in the TV show is anything but. It's pretty rare that the good guy is as interesting/colorful as the crazy psychopath but that's how I feel about Will. And yes, the Will/Hannibal relationship is so psychologically damaging for Will, it's delicious (yeah, we're the same). There's also a very psychological twisted and interesting relationship between the two of them a traumatized teenage girl who Will feels very responsible/protective...
As for the gross food stuff, you might have to cover your eyes. The worse was in the Pilot with the lungs... just skip that part if you're going to watch. Oh and something with mushrooms. Mushrooms don't gross you out I hope? *evil laugh*.
(the mushrooms I have in my fridge are not be consumed anytime soon)
ETA: Speaking of Edward Norton, there a line in the Pilot where Will says: 'Please don't psychoanalyze me. You won't like me when I'm psychoanalyzed'. Edward Norton played the Hulk a few years ago. ;)